Political cartoonists from Virginia to California gorged themselves last week on caricatures of President Trump as a fat, orange-haired gobbler in need himself of a pardon. But the truth is the only turkey in Washington these days is Chuck Schumer, still the lowly Senate minority leader after the much-ballyhooed Great Blue Wave of 2018.
That would be the second Great Blue Wave of recent years, after the Great Blue Wave of 2016. Too many more of these Great Blue Waves and Mr. Schumer is going to find himself out of a job entirely.
But the New York Democrat’s seemingly permanent fixture as minority leader is not what makes him such a turkey on the political scene.
Having fewer members in his caucus, one might think, could make Mr. Schumer’s job a little easier to juggle. If being Senate majority leader is something akin to herding cats, then being Senate minority leader is like leading a guerrilla warfare campaign from mountaintops armed only with weapons that fire Jell-O shots on the enemy below.
Sure, Mr. Schumer is lucky to have such a mobile force. But they are hardly a stealth crew: Just about every single one of them is running for president.
You have Spartacus, still tweaking from his performance as Caligula during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Also known as Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Spartacus has been running for president since even before he ran the city of Newark into the ground.
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Schumer makes me laugh .does anyone take him seriously. Especially when he cries. So so funny.
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ReplyDeleteI rise to defend Spartacus just a teeny, weeny bit. He comes prepared with his own running mate, his make-believe friend T-Bone, who he has written about previously at length.
He hails from the garden spot we know as Newark, NJ where he was mayor, although whether he was an actual resident is in doubt.
That ends my brief bio on behalf of Spartacus.
Another looser who needs to retire and go home to his recliner, take up knitting!
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